j^f)3. index indicatufius. 303 



which goes to Glasgow three times a- day. Glasgow is 

 distant from Stonelaw three miles and an half. Such heavy- 

 draughts, drawn by one horse, even for a greater length 

 of road, is not unfrequent in this country. The horses 

 employed are of the Lanarkfhire breed." Their superior 

 excellency, after the above • mentioned exertion of the 

 strength, to which they are daily accustomed, need not be 

 called in question. 



Index Indicatorius. 

 *' The following is antitled, the language of experience and years, to 

 young persons," signed a hammer man. It contains such a mixture of 

 good and bad as exhibits a very unusual appearance. The hand 

 writing and the orthography seem to indicate that it is written by a 

 young person. If so, and if it be not purloined from some other per- 

 formance, the writer fliould get somebody to revise his pieces. It is 

 written as printed. 



In rosy joyous youth ere yet we tread the 



Circle round of earth's vain frivlous joy ; ere yet 



We felt how cozning is the scene, 



Aiid hollow ; all of pure congenial blifs, to souls — 



Kov? beats the gay deluded heart, how fond 



Their ardours lor the glittering toy; 



In superficial glare alt radiant are 



Ar;d treacherous. Man looks back on all 



The geu'gaw scene and earthly pursuit with asickning • 



I.oathing soul, as an illusion great and fancys dream. 



That in the barren wilds and wastes of life 



Hath driven him out to roam disconsolate. 



Far from the path of joy sincere and pure, 



And now in disappointment dire they roarn. 



Two other verses, or stanzas, or what you please to call them, of 

 the same kind follow, which are here omitted. 



A Silly Leither gives a very strong representation of the inconve- 

 niences to which the traders are subjected by the board of customs. 

 He says " You will find the merchant paying duty for weight that the 

 purchaser will not receive, and the inferior officer trembling lest it 

 Ihould be too much." " No allowance (he says) is there given for the 

 ignorance of a merchant ; and when redrefs is applied for, it.is a board 

 of justice into whose gloomy nansions mercy dare not enter." And so 



